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sent after them. He succeeded in wounding one, but 
not so as to.prevent its running off with the herd, in 
a direction wide of our course. A couple of rabbits 
and a brace of wood partridges were shot in the after- 
noon. There was an agreeable variety of hill and dale in 
the scenery we passed through to-day ; and sufficient 
wood for ornament, but not enough to crowd the pic- 
ture. The valleys were intersected by several small 
lakes and pools, whose snowy covering was happily 
contrasted withthe dark green of the pine trees which 
surrounded them. After ascending a moderately high 
hill by a winding path through a close wood, we 
opened suddenly upon Lake Iroquois, and had a full 
view of its picturesque shores. We crossed it and en- 
camped. 
Though the sky was cloudless, yet the weather was 
warm. We had the gratification of finding a beaten 
track soon after we started on the morning of the 12th, 
and were thus enabled to walk briskly. We crossed 
at least twenty hills, and found a small lake or pool 
at the foot of each. The destructive ravages of fire 
were visible during the greater part of the day. The 
only wood we saw for miles together consisted of pine 
trees, stript of their branches and bark by this element: 
in other parts poplars alone were growing, which we 
have remarked invariably to succeed the pine after a 
conflagration. We walked twenty miles to-day, but 
the direct distance was only sixteen miles. 
